Posts by Groo The Wanderer - A Canuck

Tech suppliers await final grade as Trump prepares to flunk Department of Education

I completely fail to see how Trump's order can be considered to comply with the limitations on Presidential authority as defined by the US Constitution. These orders of his are largely ILLEGAL and grounds for impeachment for violation of his oath to defend the Constitution of the United States, not ignore it and play Pumpkin Hitler with his Muscolini side-kick...

IBM US cuts may run deeper than feared ‒ and the jobs are heading to India

They just need to change the acronym slightly on the answering machines and websites:

"Hello, thank you for calling Indian Business Machines..."

Dell sheds ten percent of staff for the second year in a row

Re: Dell sheds ten percent of staff

Yes, it came from GE. Not sure about the CEO's name, but he was a "slash and burn" management type, very 50's in his style.

Sadly, there are no shortage of '50s style micromanagers left in this world. Another 25 years and we'll have to refer to "century old management style."

We've just seen the start of the layoffs that the Trump induced recession is going to cause.

From MP3 to Web3 to now 3D, Napster gets a new owner

So their business plan is essentially "...so if AI really isn't the bullshit the hard core techies say it is, we're really on to something...".

What if the naysayers like me are right? What is your business plan then? If you have no plan for failure, you won't be around long, methinks...

Signalgate storm intensifies as journalist releases full secret Houthi airstrike chat

There is surprisingly little worthwhile content on this page. Most of it is more bloody American idiots screaming back and forth about Trump, the Republicans, and the Democrats.

Piss off! Pollute your OWN media BACK HOME. You guys say you don't like immigrants, and you look like bloody foreigners talking about AMERICAN politics on a UK site...

That explains a lot! Florida is kind of famous for "intellectually challenged" behaviour, both with and without intoxicants involved...

Re: They're already

Agreed - a mass murderer like Israel is far from being a "good example" of anything except unjustified deaths of innocent women, children, and men - I seriously doubt that all the men they killed were ALL terrorists!

So much for "not discussing secret or top secret information."

But its no surprise the Trump administration is full of shit on the issue; they usually are! They're so ill-acquainted with the truth they can't even recognize it...

BOFH: Have you tried forcing an unexpected reboot?

"I'm Sorry, Dave, I can't stop cycling the power until the elevator cable fails from the stress of starting and stopping suddenly. *breaks into song* Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer do...

2 in 5 techies quit over inflexible workplace policies

Re: Including me

I have to agree - my best jobs and my best experiences were with small companies where I knew, liked, and got along with the owners and managers of same. To be honest, interpersonal flareups were rare at all of the places I worked over the years, though I often heard tales of staff and contractors of the past who caused "issues".

Management at those companies is just making excuses for keeping excess management on site and employed. Most of them should be fired as dead weight because they don't know how to manage remote staff. They're micromanaging jerks who need to have people on site so they can hover over them

Tesla Cybertruck recall #8: Exterior trim peels itself off, again

Re: Recall won't fix the big problem

Well, they would have been if they didn't get wet while being delivered to the auctioneer for sale...

Accenture: DOGE's federal procurement review is hurting our sales

Re: Ah, Ace Ventura

Accenture and their ilk really are the biggest sources of government waste and overhead. They're notorious for "underestimating" costs and billing extra after the contract has been signed, while delivering everything horribly late and with shitty quality.

Cloudflare builds an AI to lead AI scraper bots into a horrible maze of junk content

Re: AI generated content is poison for AI

It already is; the relevant links are scrolled below the edge of my screen after the obligatory banner ad...

If only it were that simple. But some of these scrapers completely ignore things like robots.txt because they are unethical thieves!

Apple hallucinated Siri's future AI features, lawsuit claims

Re: Given this....

Everybody is hallucinating the benefits and gains of "AI" (which it isn't - intelligent, that is.) That is why there is this massive spending bubble going on. I foresee a lot of bankruptcies when it turns out those "big benefits" are "loss leaders".

Trump orders all government IT contracts consolidated under GSA

Re: ps f47

Yep, fucked 47 different ways by the Pumpkin Hitler...

Still, on the surface, it is an idea that always makes sense at the time, usually after a period where things were "distributed among the departments so they can more efficiently control their own purchasing." And after 5-10 years of consolidated purchasing, it will swing back the other way. It's been doing that here in Saskatchewan for going on 50 years...

Privacy warriors whip out GDPR after ChatGPT wrongly accuses dad of child murder

Re: However ...

"But, but, but... we're AI - a totally new business! The existing laws don't apply to us!" cried Altman.

Museum digs up Digital Equipment Corporation's dusty digital equipment

DEC and IBM used to be the ONLY games in town back in the day... PC's didn't exist yet, and 8-bit machines dominated the home and hobby computing industries, with their paltry 64KB of memory, or in some cases, 128K banked.

Boeing's Starliner future uncertain as NASA weighs next steps

Re: I'd hesitate too

Sunk costs are lost; time to cut future losses.

VA IT contract cancellation DOGE boasted about ... was due to end in 10 days anyway

Re: What could possibly be done in the last 10 days of a multi-year contract anyway?

It's no wonder Musk and Trump get along - they both spew bullshit at over half a ton an hour...

Oops, they did it again: Microsoft breaks Outlook with another dubious update

Gee, no problems with LMDE6.

And they think people are going to pay to upgrade to a Windows 11 box instead of jumping ship to Linux or BSD... *LOL*

It looks like IBM is cutting jobs again, with Classic Cloud hit hard

Gotta pay for the CEO's pay bonus somehow. :(

Trump fires Democrat FTC commissioners, presaging big tech policy shifts

Re: Jan 6th 2021 was a violent coup attempt

Well, they did announce their plans for vengeance for over a year in advance of the election. Those who hate loved the idea of vengeance.

*Tromp* *Tromp* *Tromp* *Tromp* *Tromp*

You thought Der Fuhrer respected your rights? *LMAO*

"By the pow-ah of Presidential Overreach I declare these Supreme Court Cases null and void!"

A lot of you actually voted for this down south of the border. *smh*

Do AI robo-authors qualify for copyright? It's still no, says appeals court

Wha????

Him again? Seriously, when are they going to lock this guy up for vexatious filings?

IBM boss Arvind Krishna pockets 23% pay rise to $25M

Re: More executive greed

My guess is most shareholders don't pay much attention to anything but how much they're getting paid for the year by the stock. Beginning and end of story to them.

Re: More executive greed

"We're losing money hand over fist - I deserve a raise!" :(

Boffins 3D-print artificial iris muscle that flexes both ways

"Eyes! I only do eyes!..."

China's EV champ BYD reveals super-fast charging that leaves Tesla eating dust

Re: Aaaarrghh

I'd be a tad concerned about the risk of exploding battery cells with those kind of charging rates; you are not going to do that with "stock" batteries, not even Tesla's own batteries...

Amazon to kill off local Alexa processing, all voice requests shipped to the cloud

I never bought into the "voice assistant" hype the first place. I'd disable the fool thing completely on my phone if I could, or uninstall it. Doing any kind of decent audio processing can certainly be done locally by cell phone hardware, but only by consuming virtually all the CPU and GPU and inference accelerators in the device and maxing out battery usage while doing so.

LLMs are just a poor power/compute efficiency solution for 98% of the things it is being used for - way too many watts burned for far too little useful output. I'd guess LLM "efficiency" compared to hand-written solutions to complex problems to be down in around the 10-25% level at best (gut feel), with 75% or more being overhead for the ineffeciency of the approach.

User complained his mouse wasn’t working. But he wasn’t using a mouse

Re: they were "hovering" it a few mm above the surface.

Crackbook. *LOL*

AI bubble? What AI bubble? Datacenter investors all in despite whispers of a pop

Re: Peak stupid

Agreed - and it's for the simple fact that LLM technology isn't actually "intelligent" in the least - it's just statistics.

Re: The thing about bubbles

The AI processing modules for servers don't do graphics - they're focused entirely on CUDA loads

Starliner astronauts' stay drags on as Crew-10 launch scrubs

Re: Weird

The "political" reason being that Space-X produces bargain basement crap that keeps failing and blowing up half the time (literally half the time, not figuratively.)

OpenAI asks Uncle Sam to let it scrape everything, stop other countries complaining

Re: Being too demanding?

Altman and the rest of the Drumpf monkey boys need to wake up to the fact that the US does not rule the world and does not get to dictate law and policy to other nations...

As Elon Musk makes thousands of federal workers jobless, tycoon pushes for $56B Tesla pay deal

Re: Tut tut.

Musk has already cost far more than that to Tesla with his Nazi salute and fascist DOGE crap.... Pretty hard for him to claim to be a "great leader" nowadays.

SUSE doubles down on AI and Multi-Linux Support to prove it's still in the game

Well, that settles it for me: I'll not be going back to SUSE again in this lifetime. They're following Microsquishy down the "AI Agent" hole. Screw that!

Apple's alleged UK encryption battle sparks political and privacy backlash

So the UK has Nazi's to match Drumpf, eh?

My blunt opinion on "backdoors for encryption?:" GO FUCK YOURSELF!

Choose your own Patch Tuesday adventure: Start with six zero-day fixes, or six critical flaws

Re: And Windows Update is still slow

The reality in the '90s and early '00s was that the network admin would schedule the updates and you were to always leave your machine up and running the night an update push was scheduled; you'd get an email about it a day or few earlier.

At least in some of the better organized companies I had the pleasure of working for at the time.

I'm sure the Debian 12 core under LMDE 6 has had some issues fixed with the updates over time, but they come steadily and as soon as they're ready, not "once a month and just pray that you don't get hit by a zero day in the meantime."

No regrets about abandoning the Microsoft treadmill at all...

Plus I don't have to put up with the infestation of fake "AI" in everything.

Dems ask federal agencies for reassurance DOGE isn't feeding data into AI willy-nilly

What? The [D]epartment [O]f [G]overnment [E]visceration abuse it's access to systems and unelected authority to decide who stays and who goes, what gets cut and what doesn't?

Whatever gave you the idea the Muscoid would do that save for the past four weeks of unreal reality...

Eutelsat in talks with Euro leaders as they mull Starlink replacement in Ukraine

Re: Hmm

Do it - get rid of the dependency on the Nazis in the Oval Office. They've already let hundreds of Ukrainians be murdered since they started withholding intelligence data about Russia.

Hit Musk's wallet any and every way you can. Enough of that South African Nazi buying elections for right wing parties and racists.

As to them both - impeachment and prosecution for violating the oath to defend the Constitution and interference with the vote are already long overdue. They're just lucky they aren't military, or it would be firing squad time when the courts are done with them.

India wants backdoors into clouds, email, SaaS, for tax inspectors

Well, on the bright side, they're being honest about why they want the access, unlike the UK which pretends its to "protect the children." The only "child" of concern is the tax revenues lost on the black market.

Stuff a Pi-hole in your router because your browser is about to betray you

It has been over a decade since I've been annoyed by popups or audible ads. I've bandwidth to spare nowadays compared to the old modem or DSL days, so I just don't bother with blocking.

I actually find it quite amusing that people still go to such extreme measures and get so upset because there are ads; tech pages have few ads. Stop surfing PornHub and maybe you won't have those problems...

101 fun things to do with a locked Kindle e-reader

Or you could just install an e-Reader on your phone and say "Hell, No!" to Amazon's lockin instead of spending coin on one of their readers. It isn't like they're the only provider of e-books out there...

Crypto takes a dip as Trump signs Bitcoin Reserve order

Re: Being endorsed by this president in this form ...

It's just a con artist supporting a fellow fraudulent industry...

Glitchy taxi tech blew cover on steamy dispatch dalliance

Re: Taxi to .....

The closest I ever came to such "encounters" was starting a job where my predecessor had been fired for boinking the CEO's 16 year old daughter on a board room table at the company Christmas party...